Translation for "father-substitute" to spanish

Father-substitute

• padre sustituto
• sustituto del padre

Translation examples

padre sustituto

By intruding upon my filial feelings, I reasoned, he was by implication offering himself as a father substitute, and ultimately as my protector and lover.
Entrometiéndose en mis sentimientos filiales, razoné, se ofrecía implícitamente como padre sustituto y, en última instancia, como protector y amante.

She had an instinctive knowledge of his relations with her mother – she had not, unlike Hedda, wanted to investigate these – and this made him, in a puzzling way, into yet another father or father-substitute.
Tenía un conocimiento instintivo de sus relaciones con su madre —aunque, al contrario que Hedda, no había querido investigarlas— y eso lo convertía, de forma extraña, en otro padre o padre sustituto.

sustituto del padre

Would you call him a father substitute?
¿Crees que puede ser para ti algo así como un sustituto del padre?

“I deny,” said Soames, “that I am a father-substitute.
—Niego —replicó Soames—, ser un sustituto de padre.

She succeeded in overlooking all signals of his incomprehension and increased her efforts even more, until at last she was forced to recognize that she had again found a father substitute and that this was the reason she had been unable to give up her hopes of at last being understood.
Consiguió hacer caso omiso de todas las señales de extrañeza de su corresponsal y redobló sus esfuerzos, hasta que se dio cuenta de que había vuelto a encontrar un sustituto del padre y, por consiguiente, no podía perder la esperanza de ser finalmente comprendida.